Using Archetypes in Hugo

For the longest time I completely ignored archetypes in hugo. I’d always copy over the front-matter from the last blog post I wrote and then fill in the things I needed - leading to some mistakes (e.g. using category instead of categories) over time. Archetypes are easy to use, for example to create this post I ran the following command $ hugo new blog/2020-01-07-using-archetypes-in-hugo.md This copied over the archetype file from archetypes/blog.

Hugo aliases and redirects

Using aliases to prevent 404 when restructuring your Hugo site

With the recent redesign and re-structuring of my website I decided to include year and month in URLs. I previously only used the post title as URL key, so a post with title Hello world would be available at kevingimbel.de/hello-world. With the new format this includes the section, year, and month, so for example kevingimbel.de/blog/2020/01/hello-world. To prevent all old URLs from failing with a 404 I added aliases to all old posts.

Hugo: ignore _index.md in list templates

How I ignore _index.md files in my list templates

While creating my new website I also added more sections, namely a blog, photography, and art section. All of these use list templates and render “article”-like content previews. I wanted to add some content to these lists and Hugo has a special file named _index.md for that. This file can be used to create index pages for lists. When I did that I somehow also included the index files in the post listings which was not what I wanted, so I added a if statement to my article-preview.

Hugo: compare dates to flag old content

How I use Math and Date functions to flag old posts in Hugo

With the recent redesign of my website I also wanted to add a note to old articles. The IT world is changing fast and information can quickly be outdated, so I decided to add an automatically generated note to every post that is older than 4 years. Using the Hugo Math function and Date values it can be accomplished in automated-enough fashion. Partial First I created a new partial named single-header.